today we're gonna be reviewing this fi fine not the fifein fifine i hope
i'm pronouncing it correctly fi fine usb studio
microphone
first of all let's talk about a build quality and then we kind of go and really dive deep into what
this microphone offers well this microphone built like a tank it's a very fine quality it's a full
metal construction and it feels very solid now as you noticed i'm speaking using this microphone
right now to make sure that you actually get the idea what this microphone is sound like
in the back of microphone you have two basic knobs one of them controls the mic volume
another one controls the headphones the coolest thing about this microphone that it has absolutely
zero latency so when you connect your headphones and when you try to listen what you're talking
about there is no delay so you hear yourself in real time this is absolutely fantastic in
the front of the microphone you have a little led when you speak it's showing green and if you want
to mute something it's going to turn red now one thing i want to point out that once you click mute
there's a slight click you actually hear that click so i'm not really a fan of necessarily
this kind of thing compared to for example my wave 3 microphone when you mute it's absolutely silent
you don't hear any kind of clicking or interaction this microphone by default comes with stand
and you can rotate this microphone let me loosen it up a little bit you can rotate however you
want it's a cardioid pattern meaning it picks up everything around it and if we're going to start
rotating this microphone you probably can hear that it's not really picking up the sides that
well because the capsule is in front of the microphone so i'm gonna put it back okay now
one thing that i really like about it is the build quality the build is like a tank it's a full metal
construction it has the metal mesh on top of the microphone however if you want to get that little
bit more cleaner audio you probably should put a little kind of either a foam or some kind of
the wind muff because with the plosives it's not really rejecting plus it's that good so plosives
peter peter you can hear it gets that little bit amateur p the the plosives that may be distracting
so i highly recommend using a pop filter if you want to have a really good quality audio using
this microphone comes with this little adapter and the usb cable with this little adapter you put at
the bottom of the microphone and basically you can have this microphone hanging on the boom arm
why would you use a boom arm for example if your gamer or if you want absolutely the cleanest
possible audio you definitely don't want to have it on your desk because when you tap something
it gets on the microphone and for example if you using keyboard you can hear the strokes
because it's on the table so once you're gonna bump the table you're gonna be getting
a very nasty kind of feedback with your microphone so hanging it on the boom is the way to go what do
i like about this microphone and what i don't like about this microphone the biggest thing i
like about this microphone is the sound quality i think for 60 dollars it has an incredible
sound quality right now i'm using about 20 percent uh sound on the microphone and you can
hear it sounds very nice and clear kind of like it's actually kind of like a studio quality now
what i don't like is the fact that it's using old-school usb it's not using the modern usbc
and to me this is a big turn off because i'm trying to get all my equipment now with the usbc
that way i don't have millions of different cables and basically i just have one cable
to run everything now it's not really a big deal in particular you can buy adapter like a little
magnetic adapter however i would absolutely prefer if this microphone would actually have something
like usbc that way it would be absolutely universal now like i said inside the box you
get microphone uh usb cable in this little adapter to put it on the boom mic now what i'm gonna do
now i'm gonna connect my elgato wave 3 microphone that i've been using recently and we can compare
how a 60 dollar microphone sounds against more expensive around 170 dollars microphone so let me
connect it and we're gonna find out now be mindful that this microphone is really oriented for
gamers uh starting vloggers maybe podcasters this is not supposed to be a higher end professional uh
microphone it's supposed to be beginner to average quality microphone where for example
the price wise the elgato wave 3 is start going a little bit towards more expensive
more professional microphones so now i'm gonna start switching between the microphones
and you decide which one you like better so right now i'm talking to the fifi microphone
peter piper peter you can hear it now i'm switching back to elgato wave 3 peter piper
peter let's see how good it does with the plosives and how well both of those microphones sound
again talking to fifi microphone right now and then switching to elgato wave three so i hope
there is a difference because i'm looking right now at um the waveform they sound
absolutely identical at least by the loudness and i'm not gonna do anything in post to these
microphones and hopefully it will help you to be the judge which one you like better now like i
said for sixty dollars i think this is absolutely incredible value and it's really going to get you
especially if you're doing a lot of zoom calls skype you're doing like a vlogging kind of what
i'm doing right now in my opinion this is really good value so in conclusion what do i think about
this microphone i think for 60 dollars this is absolutely incredible deal and as a matter
of fact now that i start editing my video i actually prefer the sound of this microphone
versus my elgato wave 3. now i'm gonna do a little bit more research i want to make sure that
everything i'm hearing is correct it's not just a fluke with the video or anything like that
but i think with this microphone my voice sounds a little bit deeper a little bit richer um the only
things i don't like about this mic like i said is the fact that when you push the mute button
it's kind of like clicky a little bit and uh biggest thing i don't like is that it's not usbc
it's a it's a huge turn on turn off for me because all my equipment is usbc however
i guess i'm just gonna have to deal with it and find a way to make it work what do you guys think
about this microphone please leave comments below and i'll try to answer if you have any additional
questions so again thank you for watching be sure to subscribe and i'll see you next time take care
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